Published 2026-10-26 · Cyclone Bolt

Amazon told Montgomery County, Missouri commissioners on October 22, 2026 that it may add up to 15 data center buildings on as much as 890 acres near Danville, a second site in a county where the company is already building a $10 billion campus, ABC 17 News reported the same day. Data Center Dynamics reported the plan on October 26, 2026, noting that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has not yet acquired the property and has set no construction date.

What Amazon told the county

According to ABC 17 News, Amazon representative Brian Bolton presented the plan to the county commission on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The points he laid out, as the station reported them:

  • Up to 15 new data center buildings on up to 890 acres, at a site separate from the company's current project.
  • A location near Danville, while the current project is near New Florence.
  • No set start date, with construction expected sometime between 2027 and 2029.
  • Land purchases from private owners that have not yet closed.

Bolton described the meeting as "more just the starting point," ABC 17 reported. Presiding Commissioner Ryan Poston said it may be the first of several meetings on the plan, according to the station. Data Center Dynamics (DCD) reported that the 2027 to 2029 start depends on the project being approved.

ABC 17 also reported that the county already has two data centers under construction, one by Amazon and one by Google, and that residents at the meeting raised concerns about construction truck traffic, noise, farmland and the lack of a point of contact. Ameren Missouri, the utility serving the data centers, is asking nearby farm owners to allow high-voltage power lines across their land, the station reported.

The $10 billion campus already under way

The expansion sits beside a much larger commitment. On June 15, 2026, Amazon announced plans to invest $10 billion in Missouri to build a new data center campus in Montgomery County, according to a release distributed by Missouri Partnership. The release said the project is expected to create hundreds of direct jobs and thousands of construction jobs, and that Amazon is committing more than $7 million in community contributions.

DCD reported on June 16, 2026 that the campus, known as Project Green, is set for 1,000 acres in New Florence, at the Interstate 70 and Highway 19 interchange. AWS plans two phases, DCD reported: eight data center buildings in the first phase and a possible 13 more of similar size in the second. The site plan includes multiple stormwater management ponds, three wells, and a wastewater and water treatment plant, according to DCD, and Amazon has also invested in a 138-megawatt renewable energy project in Missouri.

Taken together, the two Montgomery County sites would mean eight buildings, then up to 13 more at New Florence, then up to 15 near Danville, if every phase proceeds. DCD noted that Montgomery County lies west of St. Louis and east of Columbia, and that St. Louis and Kansas City are the state's largest data center markets. The same DCD report said AWS held an open house on a possible project in Posey County, Indiana, where the company is exploring several properties and the project remains early in planning.

What a multi-building campus means for bolting and fastener supply

A campus built in phases of eight, 13 and 15 buildings is, for a procurement team, a repeating bill of materials. Each data center building and its supporting yard typically involve the same categories of industrial construction hardware:

  • Foundations and structure: anchor bolts and anchor rods set before foundation concrete is placed, and structural bolting for the frame, mezzanines and equipment platforms.
  • Mechanical: flange bolting for chillers, pumps and piping, commonly stud bolts with heavy hex nuts to the grade the piping specification names, plus threaded rod and hardware for pipe supports.
  • Electrical and power: anchorage for generators, switchgear and transformers, and hardware for bus, cable tray and conduit supports. Where a campus brings in high-voltage lines, as the Ameren Missouri work described by ABC 17 suggests, that scope looks more like power generation construction than building work, with equipment foundations and steel of its own.
  • Water and site work: bolting for the pumps, valves and treatment equipment that go with wells, ponds and a treatment plant of the kind DCD described at New Florence.

Phasing changes how buyers approach that list. When the same owner builds the same type of building many times on one site, the fastener take-off tends to repeat, and buyers commonly carry the same grades, coatings and documentation requirements from one building to the next. A start window of 2027 to 2029 for the Danville site also means those buildings could overlap with later phases at New Florence, so one project team may be closing out shorts, the small quantities of missing sizes that can hold up turnover, on one building while opening the take-off on another.

On projects of this size, buyers typically ask for material test reports and lot traceability with each shipment, and for coatings matched to the exposure, since much of this hardware sits outdoors in a yard of generators and electrical gear. The grades, dimensions, coatings and paperwork for each item come from the project specifications and the engineer of record, not from the supplier.

Where Cyclone Bolt fits

Cyclone Bolt is a Houston, Texas manufacturer of fasteners, threaded products and custom machined components, established in 2016. Cyclone is supplying several large data center builds in Texas and welcomes more, from full-build take-offs to the shorts at the end of a project. Product families include stud bolts, stainless steel studs, heavy hex nuts, hex bolts and cap screws, double-end and tap-end studs, washers and gaskets, and custom machined components. Cyclone's published certifications include AS9100D, AS9120B, ISO 9001:2015, API Spec Q1, API 20E and API 20F.

This article reports on public meetings and news coverage. It does not describe Cyclone's own work, and nothing here indicates any Cyclone involvement in the projects covered. To discuss a data center bolting package, request a quote with your take-off, specifications and delivery dates.

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